Contact Form 7

The plugin empowers admins with a simple section in the WP admin panel where they can create complex contact forms using a simplified graphical user interface and non-technical code tags.

Multiple forms can be created with the plugin and embedded separately via custom created shortcodes.

Contact Form 7 is by far one of the most popular plugin on WordPress.org, with over 15 million downloads and counting.

This number speaks volumes of its ease of use and user friendly interface. If you run a site on WordPress and need a contact form, than look no further and trust the community.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Configure a contact form following the plugin's instructions.

What is new in this release:

• The configuration validator has been introduced.
• The language selector has been removed from Add New Contact Form screen.
• Attach a plain text version of the message when sending HTML mail.
• Added do_not_store additional setting to tell data storage add-ons not to store data through the contact form.
• The minimum required WordPress version has been changed from 4.2 to 4.3.

What is new in version 4.3:

• reCAPTCHA module has been introduced.
• Translations for Croatian, Danish, Persian, and Swedish have been updated.
• WordPress 4.2 or higher is required.

What is new in version 4.2.1:

• Renewal of the editor screen.
• Translation for Slovene has been updated.
• WordPress 4.1 or higher is required.

What is new in version 4.1.2:

• Added maxlength and minlength options to several form-tag types.
• Added [count] form-tag type that represents character count for form fields.
• Introduced WPCF7_Validation class to handle the user-input validation process.
• Added the front-end URL normalization for [url] fields.
• Added default:get, default:post and default:post_meta options to get default values from the context.
• Translations for Turkish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Hebrew have been updated.

What is new in version 4.1.1:

• Added maxlength and minlength options to several form-tag types.
• Added [count] form-tag type that represents character count for form fields.
• Introduced WPCF7_Validation class to handle the user-input validation process.
• Added the front-end URL normalization for [url] fields.
• Added default:get, default:post and default:post_meta options to get default values from the context.
• Translations for Turkish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Hebrew have been updated.

What is new in version 4.1:

• Added maxlength and minlength options to several form-tag types.
• Added [count] form-tag type that represents character count for form fields.
• Introduced WPCF7_Validation class to handle the user-input validation process.
• Added the front-end URL normalization for [url] fields.
• Added default:get, default:post and default:post_meta options to get default values from the context.
• Translations for Turkish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Hebrew have been updated.

What is new in version 4.0.3:

• The contextual help tab has been added to admin pages.
• Changed the admin menu icon to "email" dashicon.
• Translations for Croatian, Turkish, and Catalan have been updated.

What is new in version 4.0.2:

• Introduced wpcf7_build_query() to correctly apply urlencode to keys and values in URL queries.
• Translations for Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, and German have been updated.

What is new in version 4.0.1:

• Fixed a bug that caused an error when creating new contact forms in some environment.
• Translations for Portuguese and Croatian have been updated.

What is new in version 3.9.3:

• Fixed:
• File uploading was disabled in some of server environments because of wrong use of mt_rand() function.
• Translations for Hungarian has been updated.

What is new in version 3.9:

• The exclude_blank mail option has been introduced.
• The wpcf7_load_js and wpcf7_load_css (functions and filter hooks) have been introduced.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.51.0.
• Translations for Persian and Slovak have been updated.
• WordPress 3.8 or higher is required.

What is new in version 3.8.1:

• Fix:
• Misuse of functions that Akismet 3.0 has marked deprecated.
• Some URL outputs used esc_url_raw in places where esc_url should be used.
• Translation for Finnish and Thai have been updated.

What is new in version 3.8:

• Accessibility improvement: add an invisible response message block before <form>.
• Added relative date notation support in min and max options of date form-tags.
• Added html_name attribute support in [contact-form-7] shortcodes.
• WordPress 3.7 or higher is required.
• Translation for Ukrainian has been updated.

What is new in version 3.7.2:

• Fixed a bug that allowed to avoid CAPTCHA validation.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.50.0.

What is new in version 3.7.1:

• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.49.0.
• Fixed a bug of auto-p formatting around [response].

What is new in version 3.7:

• Restore floating-tip style validation error as an option.
• Support html_id and html_class attributes in [contact-form-7] shortcode.
• Fixed bug that Flamingo stored submissions in demo-mode.
• Fixed bug where auto-p function wrapped [response] with p.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.48.0.
• Translation for Haitian has been created. Translations for German, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Lithuanian, French, Basque, and Brazilian Portuguese have been updated.

What is new in version 3.6:

• Accessibility:
• Apply role="alert" to response message and validation errors.
• Apply aria-invalid="true" to input fields in which validation errors occuring.
• Stop using floating-style validation error messages (not-valid-tip) which disappear with mouse-over, as it is not accessible.
• Text domain has been changed from "wpcf7" to "contact-form-7" according with the standard of WordPress.org language packs.
• Admin:
• "Add New" submenu has been added.
• Flamingo:
• Sub-channel support.
• Pass data to Flamingo in cases of spam detected, in addition to cases of mail sent.
• Support flamingo_email, flamingo_name and flamingo_subject additional settings which allow to alter values passed to Flamingo.
• New:
• Date format in mail.
• wpcf7_submit action hook.

What is new in version 3.5.3:

• Checking of file extension when uploading has been enhanced.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.44.0.
• Translation for Central Kurdish (ckb) has been created.

What is new in version 3.5.1:

• Fixed:
• Submissions with array value cause PHP error.

What is new in version 3.4.2:

• Fixed: Unintended tabindex attributes are added to checkbox items.
• Fixed: Added an unique number to each getJSON request for avoiding cache-related issues.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.36.0.
• Translation for Gujarati language.

What is new in version 3.4.1:

• Fixed: Watermark option doesn't work on old browsers.
• Fixed: Telephone number validation doesn't accept space and parentheses.
• Translations for Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, German and Turkish have been updated.

What is new in version 3.4:

• Changed the type attribute of email field ([email] and [email*]) from text to email.
• Support the use of the maxlength attribute for textarea ([textarea] and [textarea*]).
• Support the use of HTML5 placeholder attribute (watermark is still supported and works as an alias of placeholder).
• Support the use of readonly attribute.
• Add the attribute aria-required="true" to each required field.
• Introduced WPCF7_Shortcode class and rewrote all shortcode handler functions using it.
• The following action and filter hooks have been introduced: wpcf7_mail_failed, wpcf7_support_html5, wpcf7_form_novalidate, wpcf7_is_email, wpcf7_is_url, wpcf7_is_tel, wpcf7_is_number, wpcf7_is_date and wpcf7_map_meta_cap.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.32.0.
• The required WordPress version has been changed and now requires WordPress 3.5 or higher.

What is new in version 3.3.3:

• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.25.0.
• Translations for French, German, Russian and Turkish have been updated.

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Fixed: Error for use of array_key_exists function with invalid first argument.
• Fixed: Adding unnecessary rewrite rules.
• Fixed: "Screen Options" doesn't appear on each contact form edit screen.
• Change the comment_type value sent to Akismet from 'contactform7' to 'contact-form' following their blog post.
• Introduce wpcf7_add_meta_boxes function and action with the same name. This makes it easier to add custom meta boxes to the edit screen.
• Pass meta information of each form submission (e.g. client's IP address) to Flamingo.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 3.14 and compressed with YUI compressor.
• Translation for Basque has been created.

What is new in version 3.2:

• Enhanced admin panel. Introduced list table view for contact forms.
• Moved the Contact menu to the upper position (just below the Comments).
• Show alert message when Jetpack contact form is active.
• Introduced Flamingo module.
• Made capabilities more customizable.

What is new in version 3.1.1:

• Use [\r\n\t ] instead of [\s] in regex to prevent issues of checkbox/radio options containing some UTF-8 characters are dropped.
• Bug fixed: tag generator menu is incorrectly shown on WordPress 3.2.x.
• The jQuery Form Plugin (jquery.form.js) has been updated to 2.96.
• Translations for Latvian, Hebrew, German, and Japanese have been updated.

What is new in version 3.1:

• Add several options to retrieve logged-in user info as default value of field.
• Introduce wpcf7_validate filter for validation independent from specific form tag type.
• Search contact form by title when failed to find by ID.
• Include all $_POST variables into $cf->posted_data and make them referable from mail.
• Add watermark option to captchar (CAPTCHA-response) field.
• Introduce wpcf7_ajax_loader() function and wpcf7_ajax_loader filter.
• Introduce wpcf7_akismet_comment_check filter.
• Introduce menu icons created by Takao Honda.
• Translation for Azeri has been created.
• Translations for Italian, Russian, Arabic, Danish, Persian, Romanian, and Portuguese have been updated.

What is new in version 3.0:

• Contact Form 7 3.0 utilizes Custom Post Types feature to save contact forms. It does not create its own table (contact_form_7) anymore.
• New shortcode format has been introduced. New format is like this: [contact-form-7 id="1234" title="Contact form 1"]. Note that new one starts with contact-form-7 instead of contact-form.
• Contact Form 7 3.0 works with WordPress version 3.2 or higher. This also means that you need PHP version 5.2.4 or higher and MySQL version 5.0 or higher (these are minimum requirements for WordPress 3.2).
• Translations for Japanese, German, Georgian, Italian and Spanish have been updated.
• Admin panel has been enhanced. Now it uses meta boxes.
• Bundled jquery.form.js has been updated to 2.84.

What is new in version 2.4.6:

• Fixed the bug that didn't accept '0' as valid value of drop-down menu.
• Fixed the incorrect shortcode regexp blocking use of multiline content of textarea.
• Updated jquery.form.js to 2.83.
• Translations for Vietnamese, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese Bahasa Indonesia, German and Hungarian have been updated.

What is new in version 2.4.5:

• Fixed the bug that makes it not accept "0" value as watermark.
• Fixed too much normalization to form-tag shortcode with content.
• Fixed wrong regexp pattern for form-tag shortcode with content.
• Check $_POST of checkboxes and select menus to avoid warnings.
• Use proper action hook for enqueueing scripts: wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts.
• Bundled jquery.form has been updated to 2.72.
• Translations for Czech (Tomas Vesely) has been updated.

What is new in version 2.4.5:

• Fixed the bug that makes it not accept "0" value as watermark.
• Fixed too much normalization to form-tag shortcode with content.
• Fixed wrong regexp pattern for form-tag shortcode with content.
• Check $_POST of checkboxes and select menus to avoid warnings.
• Use proper action hook for enqueueing scripts: wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts.
• Bundled jquery.form has been updated to 2.72.
• Translations for Czech (Tomas Vesely) has been updated.

What is new in version 2.4.4:

• Translation for Sinhala has been created by Nitin Aggarwal.
• Translations for German (Ivan Graf), Russian (Denis Voituk), Simplified Chinese (Keefe Dunn) and Polish (RafalDesign) have been updated.
• Fixed wrong [_url] special mail tag output.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Translation for Macedonian has been created by Darko.
• Translation for Malay has been created by Zairul Azmil.
• Translations for Danish (Georg S. Adamsen), French (Maitre Mo), German (Ivan Graf), Latvian (Sandis Veinbergs) and Persian (Mohammad Musavi) have been updated.

What is new in version 2.4.1:

• Fixed a bug causing fatal error on WordPress 2.9.
• Translations for Norwegian (Peter Holme) and Italian (Gianni Diurno) have been updated.

What is new in version 2.4:

• Moved PO files to the external branch. They were space-consuming and enlarging the plugin package.
• Added an option for size attribute of <input type="file">.
• Added 'acceptance_as_validation' additional setting. This setting allows you to use acceptance checkbox as object of validation.
• Added watermark support to text, email and textarea tags.
• Use the latest jQuery Form plugin instead of the old one which WordPress bundles.

What is new in version 2.3:

• The required WordPress version has been changed and now requires WordPress 2.9 or higher.
• When inserting multi-line text input into the message body of HTML-formatted mail, Contact Form 7 automatically applies an 'autop' (auto paragraph) filter to the text. This makes it so that the original user input styles remain -- and does not break paragraph styles in the HTML view.
• Translations for German, Finnish, Thai and Danish have been updated.

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Filters for special mail tags have been moved to modules/special-mail-tags.php.
• A bug that caused erroneous formatting around <fieldset> tags has been fixed.
• A bug of pipes, which happened when you used a label with apostrophe and the pipe wouldn't work, has been fixed.
• esc_html() is applied to posted texts when the texts are inserted into the message body of HTML-formatted mail.
• Action hooks, wpcf7_enqueue_scripts and wpcf7_enqueue_styles, have been added.
• Translations for Italian (Gianni Diurno), German (Ivan Graf), French (Oncle Tom), Traditional Chinese (James Wu) and Hungarian (Farkas Gyozo) have been updated.

Requirements:

• WordPress 4 or higher